In order to better co-ordinate the project a management group consisting of the project co-ordinator (Dr. C. Gillen), team leader from Apatity (Dr. F.F. Gorbatsevich) and team member from Apatity (Prof. F.P. Mitrofanov) will be established. The management group will be in continuous contact by E-mail and deliver information to other teams.

Primarily exchange of information and main communications between teams will be undertaken by E-mail. At various stages of the project members of different teams will meet, collaborate and discuss at the Industrial and Scientific Centre "Kola Superdeep", Zapolyarny or at the Geological Institute KSC RAS, Apatity. The team leaders and members will discuss recent progress at UNESCO IGCP-408, EUG, EGS and other meetings.

It is supposed to exchange visits for mastering sample test methods for rocks under load (Apatity Ц Kiel Ц Prague) and mineralogy (Zapolyarny Ц Yekaterinburg Ц Helsinki Ц Giessen Ц Nancy), monitoring of fluid and micro-seismic regime in super-deep boreholes (Zapolyarny Ц Yekaterinburg Ц Helsinki), joint petrophysical tests (Apatity Ц Kiel Ц Prague Ц Giessen).

Planning & Task Allocation

The project will last 36 months with the activities as indicated in the diagram below.

CO - The University of Edinburgh, Office of Lifelong Learning, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Scientific official responsible for the project: Mr Cornelius Gillen.

CR 1 - University of Kiel, Department of Earth Sciences, Kiel, Germany. Scientific official responsible for the project: Mr Hartmut Kern.

CR 2 - University of Giessen, Institute of Geosciences, Giessen, Germany. Scientific official responsible for the project: Mr Ruediger Borchardt.

CR 3 - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Recherches Petrographiques et Geochimiques (CRPG), Vandeouvre-les-Nancy, France. Scientific official responsible for the project: Mr Daniel Ohnenstetter.

CR 4 - Geological Survey of Finland, Research Development, Espoo, Finland. Scientific official responsible for the project: Mr Ilmo Kukkonen.

CR 5 - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics, Prague 8, Czech Republic. Scientific official responsible for the project: Mr Jirina Trckova.

CR 6 - State Scientific Industrial Enterprise, Kola Superdeep Scientific and Industrial Centre, Zapolyarny, Russia. Scientific official responsible for the project: Mr David Guberman.

CR 7 - Russian Academy of Sciences, Kola Science Centre, Apatity, Russia. Scientific official responsible for the project: Mr Felix Gorbatsevich.

CR 8 - Russian Academy of Sciences, Urals Branch, Institute of Geophysics, Yekaterinburgh, Russia. Scientific official responsible for the project: Mr Galina Igolkina.